Astrology
“planets, constellations, lunar days”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
jyotiṣa · planets, lunar days, and constellations · risings and settings of the constellations · the influence of the stars
in the texts
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
Astrological and calendrical categories (planets, lunar days, constellations, seasons, directions), which the text argues are mere conceptual constructs to be disregarded.
planets, constellations, zodiacal signs, and the rest are all imagined by people.
There should be no regard for planet, lunar day, constellation, place, time, and the like;
In dependence upon the rising and setting of the moon there is the construct of lunar days;
On Fate
The doctrine that the position of stars at a person's birth determines aspects of their fate, examined through the logic of Chaldaean predictions.
that Fabius was born at the rising of the Dog-star, and that Fabius will die at sea.
We are told that Stilpo, the Megarian philosopher, was a man of real keenness and approved in those times.
for it is a greater task to learn these contortions of language than the risings and settings of the constellations.